Apps Focal Landscape

Author

Randy Swaty and Sarah Hagen

Goals and use of this document

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Methods

  • Used Tesselation Tool to create 1km Hexgrid
  • Used Zonal Stats table tool with Majority selected for BpS (Biophysical Settings; Historical Vegetation Types) and EVT (Existing Vegetation Types). BpS, EVT from Sarah and hexgrids were inputs.
  • Joined BPS_NAME and EVT_NAME to hexgrid
  • BPS and EVT charts and map made with this data
  • Full datasets and full datatables upon request

Done in ArcGIS for now—will move to R
Trying this as opposed to pixel-level maps to reduce file sizes, automate development of accessible maps, ‘deal with’ scale issues

Historical Vegetation Types

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Existing Vegetation Types

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Map of Historical and Existing Vegetation Types

  • Zoom into area of interest
  • Toggle layers with control in top left corner
  • Hover over hex to get vegetation type
  • Map for exploratory work only-BpS and EVT legends and mapping methods differ making exact comparisons dicey.
  • Hexagons are 1km2

Vegetation Departure

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Associated BpS documents


Historical Disturbances by BpS

  • filtered out situations where a disturbance had less than 1,000 acres for a BpS.